I cannot begin to tell you the number of times a marriage has gotten better after a crisis where one violated the other’s trust. It was not the violation that made the marriage stronger, but the courage finally to tell the truth. That caused pain, without doubt, but as the couple worked through it, they reached a level of intimacy they’d never had before. Why? Because now their relationship has true acceptance of the people themselves—with all their blemishes and scars—rather than of the pictures projected.
